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Also, had sooner. Would prefer. For example, I had rather you let me do the driving, or He'd sooner switch than fight. This idiom today is often replaced by would rather. [Late 1500s] Also see just as soon.

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What they found was that most people preferred to work with the lovable fool rather than the competent jerk.
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Lady Rose is also rather subdued in the premiere, which is a pity.
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Truth is a torch, but one of enormous size; so that we slink past it in rather a blinking fashion for fear it should burn us.
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It ended on a complaint that she was 'tired rather and spending my time at full length on a deck-chair in the garden.'
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I was rather awed by his imposing appearance, and advanced timidly to the doors, which were of glass, and pulled the bell.
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Were you ever arrested, having in your custody another man's cash, and would rather go to gaol, than break it?
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The streets here are rather wide for an Italian city but would be deemed intolerably narrow in America.
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